BBC's Nick Robinson leaves Farage raging: 'I'm sick to death of your condescending tone!'
Nigel Farage snaps back at Nick Robinson after jabs made at his political career
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Nigel Farage clashed with the BBC's Nick Robinson on Radio 4 air this morning, after the presenter made jabs at the GB News presenter's former political career.
Robinson asked Farage if he was hoping to re-enter the political scene, after his recent public closure of his Coutts’ bank account made national news.
The Today presenter teased the former Ukip leader about his failed attempts to become an MP.
He said: “I know you’ve run seven times and lost seven times."
Nick Robinson teases Nigel Farage over political career
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Farage interrupted Robinson, saying “I’m sick to death of your condescending tone!”
Robinson insisted he was only teasing the GB News presenter, however Farage insisted he wasn’t.
Farage went on to correct Robinson, adding: “What you should say to people is ‘you’re the only person in British history who’s won two national elections leading two different parties'."
When asked if he would ever come back to politics, after his “previous success”, Farage replied no.
Nigel Farage has made headlines after his public fallout with NatWests's private bank Coutts
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He said: “I’m now a champion and a crusader for men and women who have been closed down by the banks.
“I want cultural changes within the banks and I want legal changes, and I do not want cash driven out of the system and us pushed towards central banks’ digital currencies”.
This heated discussion comes after the news that Dame Alison Rose, Chief Executive Officer for NatWest, has stepped down.
Last night, Rose admitted that she had discussed Farage’s bank details with a BBC journalist, calling the conversation a “serious error of judgement”.
She told the journalist that the account was closed because Farage fell below the bank’s wealth threshold.
Farage however believed that NatWest’s private banking business Coutts shut down his account because they did not agree with his political views.
Farage approved of her departure but said that “the whole board needs to go”.
“I think any board member that endorsed that statement last night, where they said ‘yes, she breached confidentiality, but she can stay in her post’... frankly, I think the whole board needs to go.”
Earlier on BBC’s Today show, Farage said to Robinson that the broader issue is that many small business owners’ lives are being ruined.
He said that they had no one to speak up for them and said: “The reason I have gone public is because I want to be their voice”.
He said: “I was kicked out of the bank because of my political views. What on earth does that have to do with the bank? Their job is to run a bank, not to become moral arbiters.
The frightening piece is this; I am far from alone. Many other people have come forward to say they’ve been shut out because of what they stand for.”